For a lot of project “compiling yourself”, while obviously more involved than running some magic install command, is really not that tedious. Good projects have decent documentation in that regard and usually streamline everything down to a few things to configure and be done with it.

What’s aggravating is projects that explicitly go out of their way to make building them difficult, removing existing documentation and helper tools and replacing them with “use whatever we decided to use”. I hate these.

Fair. Also, flatpak does not try to break everything by default, which is a plus.

Your solution to people wanting to buy some specific drinks is “don’t buy the thing you want, buy something else”. Hardly an answer.

How to say this in a non aggressive, non condescending way…

You’re stupid.

The thing stay open and out of the way. If it’s in your face when you drink from the bottle, it means you lack the ability to rotate a loose plastic ring 90° (or even the whole bottle). If it’s in the way of your pour, same thing.

They are as unobtrusive as it gets; and you going out of your way (with rage, it seems) to do something tedious like forcibly ripping them off or cutting yourself on smooth plastic instead of looking at it and moving it, effortlessly, in any position that would not hinder you, is the paramount of silliness.

I like the “encryption, but we have the keys” approach. Makes it very secure, especially since MS never had any security breach or leak, ever.

HTTPS isn’t only about encryption; it’s about talking to the right servers.

.txz, I’m too lazy to type the full name

I’m trying a new approach. Since I won’t touch anything beyond W10, and W10 is getting officially phased out, I just informed people that I won’t provide tech support for W11 and beyond.

Not at all. I’m arguing that often, the issues, and fixes, are not distribution-dependant. Which is a good thing; it means we can go to arch forum and find fixes that can be applied in other distros most of the time, for example.

But people keep pitting them against each other like they’re some form of evolved lifeforms that necessarily have to erase others, when a lot of the issues are just generic software issues.

And, since this is already a justification post I’ll take the lead and note that it does not mean that there is no distribution-specific issues. Of course there are. The point is that most software issue in distribution X will have the same cause and fix in distribution Y, and often have nothing to do with either specific distributions.

People keep arguing about this or that distro.

Linux distributions are just a collection of software, initial settings, and sometimes online repository.

I know. It’s still sad this is encouraged, but there is little incentive to move in the opposite direction. Better to have a lot of braindead customers I guess.

Or just, putting the cap on the side and never have it be an annoyance whether you drink from the bottle, pour it in a glass, or whatever really. People complaining about that have issues.

People that can’t use their brain should not be our baseline for making stuff.

Ah, change.org. I remember when they said “you can sign a petition without an account, just a mail validation”, immediately followed by “if you don’t create an account, the validation link in the mail will not work, fuck you”.

Guess they didn’t really want people to engage.

“New device detected: mouse. Please wait…”

But the mouse is already working dude.

Heck, I have errors in windows log that are just “sure, let’s move on”.

It’s ok, they just started the “security first” initiative, we’re all saved.

There is no software solution that protects from a crowbar, you have to go to the hardware side.

You really are missing the point that if the device is rooted there is nothing an app can do to protect itself. Defense in depth is layering (sometimes overlapping) solutions that do something. Detecting root and saying “nuh-uh” is not doing anything.

So? If I, the customer, want to access my banking info, on my phone, with whatever means I want, I should be able to. As I said, it’s not like every app gets root access, if I, as the owner of the device, explicitly gave root access to something, it’s for a reason.

And the main point that a rooted phone can basically hide itself from any app remains; these “detections” are trivially bypassed in the exact situation they’re supposed to detect.